Search Results for: united nations⊂mit=Search

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned that the rapid industrialisation of global animal food production is increasing the risk of disease transmission from animals to humans, especially given expanding global trade networks. In a policy paper Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks, the FAO said: "The risk of disease transmission from animals to humans will increase…due to human and livestock population growth, dynamic changes in livestock production, the emergence of worldwide agro-food networks and a significant increase in the mobility of people and goods."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ALLEGED glaring loopholes in China’s fight against the counterfeiting of goods will now be examined in detail by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes settlement panel, which was established yesterday (Tues) at the urging of the United States.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

FEW issues have proved as globally divisive as the ability to modify crops genetically. For years, a line has been drawn between the cautious European Union (EU) and the go-for-it United States, which has seen them at loggerheads over trading genetically modified crops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will focus resources on reducing greenhouse gases in eastern Europe and central Asia, where some countries have the highest worldwide emissions per GDP unit. The UNDP will promote private finance and help manage emissions reduction schemes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Commission, and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) have agreed to expand their current cooperation. They will intensify coordinated work on assessing paediatric and orphan medicines, while widening the organisations’ scientific consultation to include extensions of therapeutic indications and risk management plans.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas

LAST year’s lawsuit against a tribe and a casino manager for violation of the United States’ Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) – the first case of its kind – has been hailed by the country’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as a demonstration of why stringent anti-money laundering programmes are needed at gambling establishments on Native American (Indian) reservations.…

BY MARK ROWE

A FUEL marker so complex that it is all but impossible for thieves to replicate has been developed by scientists; the marker is so sensitive, it can identify illegal stolen fuel by using nanotechnology-based components.
This nanotech-based tracer, developed by Authentix, a nano-science company based in Dallas, Texas, uses hand-held LSX-based technology, and which has already been taken up by Luke Oil, Shell and BP in the United States.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

THE DEVELOPMENT of biofuels and their impact on food crops has generated debate since Germany’s Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil in 1894.
However, now a biofuels boom is moving global markets and one result is commodity crop price inflation.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE NUMBER of West Nile virus cases in the United States may reach epidemic proportions this year according to US government researchers after health authorities reported four times more cases than last year.
Then, there were 4,269 cases in the US.…